Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1882 — Coffee Drinking In America. [ARTICLE]

Coffee Drinking In America.

Americans are becoming a nation of ooffee drinkers. The consumption of tea per head of population has only increased from 1.01 to 1.44 pounds since 1867, while that of coffee in the same period has gone up from 6.11 to 8.89 pounds. Great Britain, on the other hand, drinks , less coffee in proportion to population than

a generation ago, while the consumption of tea has almost quadrupled in forty years. '